After her childhood sweetheart, Gideon Beiler, abruptly ended their engagement on Christmas Eve, cake decorator Mattie Eash starts a new life in Berlin, Ohio, and eventually gives her heart to someone new, but three years after her painful ordeal, an unforeseen setback forces Mattie home and into painful proximity to Gideon.

Three love stories set in Alaska involve the Holland family as they struggle to keep their faith despite problems.

Stuck on the road without shelter when a tornado appears, Megan barely escapes with her life. When Will lets her stay at the Callahan family ranch, she finds herself daring to love again. Can Will make her believe in the power of love and forgiveness?

Unto Us A Child . . . by Catherine Palmer When Jeremiah Maddox agreed to let university adminstrator Lara Crane house international students in his guest cottage, he never expected he'd be hosting a married couple with three children. Nor did he imagine circumstances would compel him to babysit the family's infant at Christmastime. And what he least expected was to fall for the woman responsible for turning his life upside down! Christmas, Don't...

Features Lori Foster's "The Christmas Present", in which Beth Monroe, catches her fiance with another woman and gets revenge by sleeping with his best friend, again and again; plus stories by Karen Kelley and Dianne Castell.

A spirited Irishwoman comes to a rugged Colorado town to govern a young ruffian and learns a love lesson from the boy's father . . . In the midst of a blizzard, a snowbound woman offers shelter to a mysterious stranger . . . Home for the holidays, an artist proves opposites can attract when she falls for an unconventional doctor . . . A holly berry-picking contest in the California hills brings two determined hearts together for the greatest prize...

Amish widower Samuel Fisher journeys from Lancaster County to Bluegrass Country seeking a balm for his grief after his wife's death. Esther Beiler, who helps watch his children there develops a crush on Samuel and a true affection for his kids. Can she win his heart, or has he already lost it to an English woman? How will God untangle these star-crossed lovers when jealousies and misconceptions threaten to tear them apart?

A blacksmith with a criminal past. A librarian with pacifist ideals. Do they have a chance at finding love? Set in Texas in the 1880s.

The logging industry in eastern Texas is booming, and Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's business now that she's completed college. Then she meets Dr. Christopher Clayton, sparking her interest not only in medicine and science--but the doctor, too. When typhoid begins to spread and her best friend's jilted fiancé returns, Deborah wonders if true love can overcome such obstacles ... for those dearest to her, and for herself.